Jacquard-card repeater.



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Patented July 16, 1912.

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COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH Cm. WASHINGTON, D. C.

V. BOYLE. JAGQUARD CARD REPEATER. APPLIUATION FILED 001'. 6, 1910.

,707, Patented July 16, 1912.

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COLUMBIA PLANOORAPH co., WASHINGTON, n. c

V. ROYLEL,

JAGQUARD CARD REPEATBR. APPLICATION FILED 00w. 6, 1910.

- 1,032,707. Patented July 16, 1912.

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L'OLUMUIA I'LANOGRMH co., WASHINGTON, n. c,

NEW JERSEY.

VERNON BOYLE, E rarnnson,

JACQUABD-CARD REPEATEB.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented July 16, 1912.

' Serial No. 585,647.

filed. October 6, 1910.

any horizontal or longitudinal section of the face of the cylinder into coactive relation'to the bank of selecting needles.

The means for reciprocating the carriage toward and away from the selecting needles and for rotating the pattern cylinder step by step are quite similar to those shown and described Letters Patent No. 5567 7 Application To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Vnnnon Form, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Jacquard-Card itepeaters, of which the following is a specification. in

My invention relates to jacquard card granted to me March at, 1896, and a derepeaters, the object being to provide for tailed description of them is omitted in the repeating the whole or any transverse secpresent case. tion or any longitudinal section of the pat- The main frame of the machine is detern card at pleasure. noted as a whole by 1, and the reciprocating A practical embodiment of the invention carriage on which the pattern cyl'nder 18 is represented in the accompanying drawearned, by 2.

ings in which, The chain of pattern cards to be repeated and is earned on a bracket 5 arrange to travel along the front face of a plate 6 which forms a way for the slide, the slide being held against displacement on the plate or way 6 by a lip 7 see Fig. 3, which overlaps the upper edge of the plate or way 6. e slide 5 is arranged transversely across the main frame 1, and is of such length as to permit the chain of pattern cards to be slid a distance, in the present instance, corresponding to nearly or quite three lengths of a pattern card.

is denoted by 3,

Figure 1 represents in perspective so 1 fixed to a slide much of a jacquard card repeating machine as is deemed requisite to illustrate the present invention in its relation to the parts of the machine which immediately co-act therewith. Fig. 2 is an enlarged view in side elevation of the mechanism for imarting an interrupted rotary movement of pattern cylinder, and also for adjusting the pattern cylinder radially and. in different vertical positions. Fig. 3 is a similar view with the gears removed to show more clearly certain of the parts behind the gears.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged View in side elevation The main frame 1 18 provided with a looking from the opposite side from that laterally extending bracket arm 8 for extending the width of the main frame to assist in supporting the wide reciprocating carriage 2. At its opposite ends, the front of the reciprocating carriage in Fig. 2. L 5 is a partial one end toward the center. from the opposite partially broken represented Fig. front view from Fig. 6 is a similar view end toward the center, away and the pattern chain support removed. Fig. 7 is a detail view of a device for registering the pattern cylinder, and

Fig. 8 1s a front view of the same.

2 is provide with yokes denoted by 9 and 10, the branches of which project forwardly, and in each pair of these branches, ascrew is swiveled. The screw swiveled in the branches of the denoted by 11 and the screw My invention contemplates a pattern cylyoke 9 is inder movable endwlse of the core to bring swiveled in the branches of the yoke 10 1s the whole or any lateral section o the denoted b 12. These screws 11 and 12 are cylinder in coactive relation to the selecting rovided with traveling nuts 13, 14, which needles, a pattern card support arranged to nuts are developed into bearings for the 45 be slid laterally of the machine to correopposite ends of the core 15 of the pattern spond with the position which the pattern cylinder 16 At one end the journal 17 of card cylinder may be made to occupy {LDC the core 15 has mounted thereon an fixed a reciprocating carriage for supporting e to rotate with the core, a notched disk 18,

core on which the cylinder slides, the said the notches in the face of the disk corre- 50 carriage being provided with vertically adsponding in number to the faces of the patjustable pattern card supports for raising tern cylinder 16, in the present instance, 0

four notches arranged at a quadrants disthe core and hence the pattern tance apart.

and lowering thereon, to bring the whole or card cylinder The journal 17 also has supported thereon, a hanger 19 for supporting this rotary movement, I find it convenient one end of a guide rod 20 which carries a to provide the journal 22 with a knurled pattern supporting roller 21 for guiding the handle 42.

chain of pattern cards 3 to the pattern card As the core 15 and pattern cylinder therecylinder 16. The journal 22 at the oppoon are supported in the traveling nuts 13,14, 70

core 15 and keyed to a hollow hub 23 on. may be raised and lowered at pleasure by the end of the core. A hanger 24 is mountturning the screws 11, 12, in the one direced on the hub 23 and supports the opposite tion or the other, the arm 32 carrying cerend of the guide rod 20. The hanger 24 tam of the driving gears mamtammguts 75 may be lockedon the hub 23 by means of a relative position to the gear 27 by rocking set screw 25, the latter entering an annular on the pivot 33. As, however, the raising groove 26 on the hub so that when the set and lowering of the pattern cylinder will screw is loosened, the hub 23, together with cause the face of the cylinder toward the the core and journal 22, may be rotated selecting needles to assume a position more 80 relatively to the hanger 24. In like manner the hanger 19 may be locked to and released from the journal 17.

A gear wheel 27 for operating the core 2O 15 and the pattern cylinder thereon, is provided with a hub 28 which receives the journal 22 within it, the hub being mounted was squarely presented to the needles before the adjustment took place, the cylinder may e squared with respect to the selecting needles after its adjustment up or down by 85 oosening the screws 38, 39, and then turnthe exterior of the hub 28 being provided with an annular groove 29 within which the end .of a set screw 30 extends to lock the hub 28 and hence the gear wheel 27 against longitudinal displacement on the journal 22. The set screw 30 is screwed into 30 a threaded hole in the wall of the journal box formed by the traveling nut 14. The hub 28 also receives the forward end 31 of t e gear supporting arm 32 pivoted at 33, to the carriage 2. To the outer face of the gear 27, there is pinned a notched disk 34 corresponding to the notched disk 18 at the opposite end of the core, and adapted to be engaged by a spring-actuated retaining pawl 35 to hold the cylinder at one end against unintentional displacement, in a manner quite similar to that shown in my United States Letters Patent hereinbefore referred to. This notched disk 34 is mounted on a reduced outer portion of the journal 22 and has adjustably secured to its face,

a scale 43 on the face of the notched disk The core 15 is preferably made of suflicient length to permit the pattern cylinder 16 vwhich has a longitudinally sliding engagement with the core, to be moved nearly or quite its length to the right or left of a central position of the core. In the drawings, Fig. 1, the pattern cylinder islocated of holes 45 to receive a screw 46 passing through the wall of the cylinder near its end, as shown in Fig. 5. To accurately register and hold the opposite end of the core and hence the pattern cylinder, and cause it to squarely present the face of the pattern card to the selecting needles, whatever be the vertical adjustment of the core, I arrange to coact with the notched disk 18, a registering dog 47 provided with a tapered nose 48 and with pins 49, 50, project- 50 disk 34 by means of screws 38, 39, which ing from its back. The pins 49 50, fit 1n extend through elongated slots 40, 41, formed in the plate 36, into the face of the notched disk 34.

It will be noted that the driving gear 27 55 is made fast to the journal 28 for driving the core 15 and hence the pattern cylinder, through the intervening parts, to wit: the notched disk 34 and the plate 36, so that 8, the said plunger 53 having a tail piece 00 when the plate 36 is released from the which passes through an opening in the 60 notched disk 34 by loosening the, screws bracket and supports a coil spring 56 inter- 38, 39, the journal 28 and hence the core posed between the wall of the bracket and pattern cylinder thereon, may be rothrough which the tail piece 55 extends and tated to an extent limited by the length of the inner end of the plunger 53, tending to the elon ated slots 40, 41, independently of hold the plunger in its advanced position,

65 the relation to the gear 27. To perform as shown in full lines in Fig. 7. The plun in movement in a bracket 54 supported 120 cylinder, means for adjusting the pattern cylinder both horizontally endwise and vertically and means for feeding a chain pattern cards to the cylinder in its adjusted positions. 70

ger 53 is also provided with a pin 57 which extends through a slot 58 in the wall of the socket in which the plunger reciprocates to limit the forward throw of the plunger and hence of the dog 47. The dog 17 is secured in the desired vertical adjustment 1. In a jacquard card repeater, a pattern to enter one of the notches in the disk 18 cylinder, a core on which the pattern cylinby means of a set screw 59 extending der is mounted in sliding adjustment, and a through some one of the threaded holes sliding support for a chain of pattern cards tapped through the side wall of the head for feeding them to the cylinder in its different adjusted positions.

5. In a jacquard card repeater, a pattern cylinder, a core on which the pattern cylinder may slide, means for raising and lowering the core and hence the pattern cylinder and means for feeding a chain of pattern cards to the cylinder whereby the sald pattern cylinder may be made to present either a transverse or a longitudinal section of its face to the selecting needles at pleasure.

6. In a jacquard card repeater, a reciproeating carriage, a core mounted in the carriage, a pattern cylinder slidable along t e core, a fixed way, and a pattern chain support slidable along the way, the said way being located in the plane of the longitudi nal axis of the core, whereby the chain 0 pattern cards may be maintained in the same relative position to the pattern cylinder whatever he the adjustment of the pattern cylinder along the core.

7. In a jacquard card repeater, a reciproeating carriage, a core carried by the carriage, a pattern cylinder mounted on the core and means for registering the rotary position of the core as the carriage is reciprocat-ed.

8. In a jacquard card repeater, a reciproeating carriage, a rocking core carried by the carriage, a pattern cylinder on the core, a notched disk fixed to rock with the core and a registering dog in pos'tion to engage the notches in the disk as the carriage approaches the limit of its stroke to register the pattern cylinder.

9. In a jacquard card repeater, a reciprocating carriage, a rocking core carried by the carriage, a pattern cylinder on the core, means for vertically adjusting the core an hence the pattern cylinder, and vertically adjustable means arranged to coact with the core to register it whatever be its vertical position.

10. In a jacquard card repeater, a reciprocating carriage, a rocking core carrie y the carriage, a pattern cylinder on the core, means for vertically adjusting the core an hence the pattern cylinder, a notched disk carried by the core and a vertically adjustable registering dog arranged to engage a notch in the disk to register the pattern cylinder whatever he the vertical adjustment of the core.

11. In a jacquard card repeater, a reciprocating carriage, a core mounted in rocking 52 and communicating with the holes 51 which receive the pins d9, 50. As the carriage moves in a direction to force the pattern card against the ends of the selecting 15 needles, the nose 18 of the dog 17 enters one of the notches in the disk 18 and during the latter partof the movement of the carriage, the dog is forced backward against spring tension, tending to seat it tightly in one of 20 the notches in the disk 18, thereby holding the pattern card in exact register at the moment it presents itself to the ends of the needles. The bank of selecting needles is not shown herein, but it may be assumed to 25 be arranged in the manner shown and described in my Letters Patent hereinbefore referred to.

In operation, assuming the pattern cylinder to be located midway of its core 15; i 30 may be adjusted longitudinally along the core either to the right or left, to present any portion of it in lateral section to the selecting needles, or 1t may be located in position to present its entire face to the select- 35 ing needles, and the support for the chain 0 attern cards may in like manner be adjusted laterally of the machine to correspon to the position which the pattern cylinder occupies, so that it is feasible to run the chain of pattern cards through with one section only operating upon the selecting needles, as for example, to make a stripe at one en 0 the goods, and then the chain may be shifted to run another section through, then changed on the opposite side to again introduce the stripe and so on, at pleasure. In whatever position the pattern card cylinder be advanced, either horizontally or vertically, the parts which coact therewith may 50 be adjusted so that the pattern card cylinder may be held in exact register and present its face squarely to the selecting needles.

What I claim is:

1. In a jacquard card repeater, a pattern 55 cylinder, means for adjusting the pattern cylinder horizontally endwise and means for feeding the chain of pattern cards to the attern cylinder in its different horizontally endwise adjusted positions. 60 "2.. In a jacquard card repeater, a pattern cylinder, means for adjusting the pattern cylinder vertically, and means for feeding a chain of pattern cards to the cylinder in its different vertical adjustments.

65 3. In a jacquard card repeater, a pattern with the screws, a core mounted in the traveling bearings, and a pattern cylinder on the core.

14. In a jacquard card repeater, a core provided with a series of tending longitudinally along it, a cylinder slidable along the core, a set screw for locking the pattern cylinder to the core in the desired adjustment along the core, and means for presenting a chain of pattern cards to the pattern cylinder.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have signed my name in presence of two witnesses, this fourth day of October 1910.

VERNON BOYLE.

adjustment in the carriage, means for vertically adjusting the core, a pattern cylinder carried on the core, and means for securing the core and hence the pattern cylinder in different rocking adjustments to square it with respect to its work whatever be its ve tic-al adjustment.

12. In a jacquard card repeater, a reciprocating carriage, a core mounted in the carriage in rocking adjustment, means for vertically adjusting the core, a pattern cylinder carried by the core, an adjusting plate provided with a pointer and a disk fixed with respect to the core and provided with a scale over which the pointer passes for indicating the rocking movement of the core.

13. In a jacquard card repeater, a reciprocating carriage, adjusting screws swiveled in the carriage, traveling bearings engaged lVitnesses BEULAH LocKwooD, FRED T. KENNEDY. 

